The manuscripts of Cardinal Bessarion

Guest post by Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Books & Special Collections This volume, the Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468, records a number of Greek and Latin manuscripts, once owned … Continue reading

List of Greek manuscripts in Escorial library of Spain

Guest post by Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Books & Special Collections This short book provides a list of Greek manuscripts from the library of the sixteenth-century Platonist Francesco Patrizi  (1529-1597), acquired by the celebrated Escorial library of Spain in the … Continue reading